Standard for tagging music files with artist's 'aliases'? Options

[SoberWarlock]

What is the universal tag that identifies the artist's aliases so you can have a better search result for a well documented library of songs.

For Example:

Twista was known as "Tung Twista" in his early releases as a rap artist, but for every release I want to add an alias so I can remember that it is the same artist and I don't have to make more folders when I can put his discography in one folder labeled as "Twista".

[slks]

Aphex Twin is an even worse case. He's used a dozen names, many for only one release. Aphex Twin, AFX, Bradley Strider, GAK, Power-Pill, Caustic Window, ...

What I did for him is just put the pseudonym he used in the regular ARTIST field, plus "aphex twin" in the COMMENT tag. foobar2000's search feature then lists all his releases when I do a search for "aphex twin". Now, I believe that foobar searches all tag fields. So, creating a custom field, maybe called ALIAS or SEARCH, would also probably work, if you are hesitant to use the COMMENT field.

(I'm now realizing this is pretty much exactly what BoraBora said.)

Unfortunately, I don't think there's any proper, standardized way to do this. And software other than foobar may not search custom tag fields. Closest thing to a standard that you could use to specify more than one artist name for a song would probably be ALBUM ARTIST. It's normally used for compilations with multiple artists on one album, but you could also bend it to be used for multiple names of a single artist. Foobar has good built-in support for sorting by ALBUM ARTIST, and I believe several other players do too. ARTIST SORTNAME may be worth checking out, but personally this is the first time I've ever heard of it, and couldn't tell you more.

This post has been edited by slks: Mar 22 2012, 10:15